Thursday night’s blowout loss to the Chargers was the fifth straight game that the Vikings played without quarterback J.J. McCarthy and watching Carson Wentz try to battle through injury throughout the night raised the question of whether it is the right time to go back to McCarthy.

McCarthy injured his ankle in a Week 2 loss to the Falcons and the team said it was a 4-6 week injury at the time. We’ve reached the longer end of that window and a point where it feels like the 3-4 Vikings need to figure out what they have in their 2024 first-round pick.

McCarthy has been healthy enough to serve as the team’s emergency quarterback the last two weeks and head coach Kevin O’Connell’s comments in his postgame press conference suggested that the team will use their extended break before faci

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